Su Qingluan is not a person with deep thoughts, especially when facing a person like Mu Xingzhi who is really deep-minded. Su Qingluan knows that her narrow-mindedness is not only like showing off one's skills in front of an expert, but also like showing off one's skills in front of Guan Gong.
So from the very beginning, Su Qingluan's attitude in front of Mu Xingzhi was very frank - except for hiding the fact that she had traveled through time.
Moreover, even if Su Qingluan was trying to hide it, her acting skills were really terrible. So her almost subconscious expression made Mu Xingzhi understand what she was struggling with.
"Kaiyang is a secret guard," Mu Xingzhi smiled and shook his head, "and he is a secret guard who has been given the name of one of the 'Big Dipper'."
Su Qingluan was stunned, then nodded and understood.
She didn't know what "Big Dipper" meant specifically, but anyone who had graduated from elementary school would understand that Big Dipper's full name was "Big Dipper". Although Su Qingluan didn't remember the specific names of the seven stars, she understood that each of the seven stars represented a person, which meant that there were six other secret guards like Kaiyang.
According to Mu Xingzhi, he had more than seven secret guards under his command, but these seven were clearly special. Regardless of the reason for this special status, Su Qingluan believed that given Mu Xingzhi's personality, the secret guards who caught his eye must have their strengths.
Thinking of this, Su Qingluan gave up the idea of finding out how "Kaiyang" left, and instead remembered another point she wanted to complain about just now: "Mu Xingzhi, didn't you tell your subordinates that our marriage is just a cooperation?" Because she was worried that "the other side of the wall has ears", Su Qingluan leaned forward and whispered the last half of the sentence in Mu Xingzhi's ear.
Mu Xingzhi, on the other hand, looked innocent: "Why do you want to say that?"
"..." The man was so confident that Su Qingluan was speechless.
Su Qingluan rationally understood that since the "pretending to be a couple" was a secret, the fewer people who knew about it, the better. Song Bo was someone who couldn't be ignored because he was Mu Xingzhi's personal caregiver. However, Kaiyang was different. Although Kaiyang had been in and out of Huaxi Village more than once, he was only there to pass on information, so it was understandable that he didn't tell him about his true relationship with Mu Xingzhi.
But... when Su Qingluan heard the other party's subordinates respectfully calling her "Madam", she always felt a little guilty. After all, strictly speaking, both she and the other party were employees working for the man in front of them. Now she was suppressing the other person for no reason, and she always felt that she was "using the tiger's skin to wave the banner".
...Although it was not her intention to wave the flag.
As usual, Su Qingluan did not ask Mu Xingzhi what Kaiyang was doing here - she just needed to complete her own work. If there was anything special that needed to be done, Su Qingluan believed that Mu Xingzhi would tell her without waiting for her to ask.
As expected, just as I was thinking this, I heard Mu Xingzhi ask, "Qingluan wants to use 'Su Ji' as an excuse to go to the capital next spring. I wonder if it can be done?"
The mission, it turns out that the mission has been issued!
Su Qingluan knew this was a job, and instantly perked up: "I was wondering when I could go to the capital! It's great to have the opportunity!" After a pause, she looked at Mu Xingzhi, "So, when will there be a letter?"
Originally, the main reason why Su Qingluan had been unable to go to Beijing to "develop business" was that the current situation was said to be unstable. The old emperor's health was deteriorating, and he was still hanging on to his last breath. The princes under him each had their own supporters and were in a state of chaos.
Unfortunately, the old emperor was also a power-hungry person. He held on to power tightly and refused to give up even a little bit of it. He even dealt with several restless sons.
Of course, the old emperor was not so mad as to take direct action against his sons. Instead, he made an example of someone to scare the monkeys and dealt with several important officials who made the most noise. This was one of the reasons why the capital had been in a state of panic in the past two or three years - no one knew whose neck the old emperor's suspicious guillotine would fall on next time.
After all, most of the important officials and their subordinates underground have no bloodline protection.
Could it be that the old emperor... Su Qingluan looked at Mu Xingzhi with some fear: This guy wouldn't treat the emperor...
Seeing Su Qingluan's expression change from surprise to astonishment and then gradually to horror, Mu Xingzhi knew that this person must have been thinking of something wrong again.
"What are you thinking about?" Mu Xingzhi reached out and patted Su Qingluan's forehead to bring her back to her senses. "Don't let your imagination run wild. What you imagine won't happen. Anyway, there will be news in about a month... So what are we having for dinner tonight?"
"...Isn't this change of topic too abrupt?" Su Qingluan pouted unwillingly and complained.
However, one of Su Qingluan's greatest strengths is her "knowledge of propriety". Under normal circumstances, unless she is irritated, she will usually never ask questions about issues that the other party does not want to mention.
So she looked towards the kitchen: "We'll have fried chicken tonight... Well, it's probably a way you haven't eaten it before. It might be greasy, but it's delicious."
"Too much oil is not conducive to digestion." This is the advice given by Mu Xing, who seems to be a health expert.
Su Qingluan suddenly thought that the person in front of her seemed to be a Chinese medicine practitioner who was proficient in medical skills... Thinking of this, she was not surprised at Mu Xingzhi's Yang Sheng look.
She nodded. "Yes, what I'm doing isn't very good for my health, but didn't you also say that good mood and illness are closely related?" Although the original words were a bit more literary, the general idea was this: "If I eat these things, I'll feel better. Isn't this also good for my physical and mental well-being?"
Mu Xingzhi obviously didn't expect Su Qingluan to be able to make the twisted logic round in this direction. Hearing this, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "You're right. It's me who's too rigid."
Su Qingluan calculated the time. Song Bo had been working tirelessly in the kitchen for her for over two quarters of an hour, kneading the juices from the vegetables and fruit peels into the chicken. This should be enough time, so she stood up and said, "I'm going to make fried chicken. I'm sure you and Song Bo will like it."
After all, fried chicken has withstood the test of the taste buds of people all over the world in the past life!
Imagine the delicious food that will come out of the pan with your own hands soon, the fried chicken with a crispy golden crust, the "yam version" French fries with a golden crust and a white interior, and the fried steamed buns coated with golden egg liquid... Su Qingluan can even smell the aroma full of oil now.
Thinking of this, she felt her stomach growling.
With her imagination about food in her mind, Su Qingluan almost skipped towards the kitchen. At this moment, she inadvertently heard Mu Xingzhi's voice with a nonchalant tone: "Qingluan, do you believe that there are people who can predict the future?"
These words sounded as if they were filled with some kind of mysterious magic. Su Qingluan paused and turned back: "Predicting the future?"
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